Hame-strap fastener



(NoModeLy Y R. G. HAN'PORD. Jr. Y HAMB STRAP FASTENER- No. 274,763.Patented Mar.27,1883.

N. PETERS Phokrhlhognpher. Washington. ma

UNITED STATES.

ROBERT G. HANFORD, JR, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO 0. B. NORTH 8t00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

PATENT OFFICE.

HAME-STRAP FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,763, dated March27, 1883. Application filed February 7. 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT G. HANFORD, Jr., of Columbus, in the countyof Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented new Improvements inHame-Strap Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following, when takenin connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, -to be afull, clear, and exact description of the [0same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure l, a perspective view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, showingthe fastener as engaged with the hanie-strap; Fig. 3, perspective viewof the same fastener having a protecting-hook combined therewith.

This invention relates to an improvement in the device for fastening thehames of a barness, the object being to secure the buckle to one end ofthe strap and form a loop for the other end of the strap, and constructthe device so that it may be made from cast metal and molded withoutcoring; and it consists in I the construction as hereinafter described,and

more particularly recited in the claims.

A Arepresent the two side bars, connected at their two ends bycross-bars a. From one end to the other the sides A are curved outward,the extreme curvature being little more 0 than three times the thicknessof the strap, and at their center a cross-bar, b, is formed, and midwaybetween the center bar, I), and the two end bars is a cross-bar, d onone side and e on the other side. Upon the under or inside of the twointermediate bars, 01 e, is an in weirdly-projecting stud, f, as seen inFig. 2. This completes the article. It is applied as seen in Fig. 2. Theone end, B, of thestrap is passed in over the bar a, at one end through0 beneath the studs f, and over the bar a at the 'other end, thencethrough the buckle, and returned over the strap and beneath the bars ad, the two studs ff entering perforations in the end part of the strap.The loop of the 5 part turning the strap incloses the buckle-bar C. Theinner part of the strap serve! to hold the end portion B on the studs,and thus secure the buckle to the standing part of the strap. The freeend .part D of the strap passes through the buckle, and then is tucked 0between the outer bar, b, and the intermediate bars, d e, as a loop toretain the free end of the strap. While I prefer to provide the two barsd 0 with the stud f, it may be sufficient that a single stud beemployed. In this construction the article is readily molded and drawnfrom the sand without coring, and re quires no labor or finishing otherthan that which may be given by the tumbling process.

In some cases, and to prevent wear upon the loop of the strap, Iconstruct the fastener with a hook-like projection, E, at the endopposite the buckle, which will engage a metal loop in the hame withinthe loop of the strap, and thus serve as a protection for the strap.This 6 hook-like projection has its base open under the hook, theopening being of greater extent than the hook,so that the hook may beformed in the same process of molding and without subsequent bending.

I claim- 1. The herein-described hame'strap fastener, consisting of thetwo outwardly-curved sides, A, connected by the end bars, a a, and attheir-center bya cross-bar, b, with interme- '7' diate cross-bars, e d,one or both of said bars provided with an inwardly-projecting stud,f,

substantially as described.

2. The herein-described hame-strap fastener, consisting of the twooutwardly-curved so" sides A, connected by the end bars, a. a, and attheir center by a cross-bar, b, with intermediate cross-bars, e 01, oneor both of said bars provided with an inwardly-projecting stud,f, one ofthe end bars having the hook-shaped 8 extension E, the base of theextension beneath the hook open, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

- ROBERT G; HANFOR-D, JR. Witnesses: 1

l H. M. BUTLER,

A. L. RALSTON.

